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| Genre/Form: | Psychological fiction Domestic fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001. Optimist's daughter. New York : Random House, 1972 (OCoLC)569878598 Online version: Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001. Optimist's daughter. New York : Random House, 1972 (OCoLC)630896904 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Eudora Welty |
| ISBN: | 0394480171 : 039448018X 9780394480176 : 039448018X 039448018X 9780394480183 |
| OCLC Number: | 329526 |
| Description: | 180 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Eudora Welty. |
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Abstract:
This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. "The Optimist's Daughter" is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.
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